Eyewitness accounts said hearing ‘something like a boom’ and then ‘clanking of objects,’ while the fire raged for well over half an hour, destroying the copter, killing its occupants and reducing huge trees to ashes.”The helicopter crashed in a forest area, pretty close to a tea estate. The main, motorable route to this area is only through the tea estate. It was the local people and workers who saw what happened immediately after the crash,” a senior state police official in Chennai told PTI quoting preliminary inputs.”The Defence authorities could throw light on the crash,” he added.Eventually, when some people managed to reach close by, they could just not believe what they saw.When they spotted a ‘burning thing’ they initially thought that it could be the branch of a tree, and on inching closer, the stench of the flesh that was still ablaze made them realise what it was;a ‘burning and burnt’ body of a man crushed under the heavy branch of a huge tree that fell down in the impact of the crash.
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